Inserting much-needed historical context into the voucher debates, "Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in American Education" treats school vouchers as a series of social movements set within the context of evolving American conservatism. The study ranges from the use of tuition grants in the 1950s and early 1960s in the interest of fostering segregation to the wider acceptance of vouchers in the 1990s as a means of counteracting real and perceived shortcomings of urban public schools.
The rise of school vouchers, author Jim Carl suggests, is best explained as a mechanism championed by four...
Inserting much-needed historical context into the voucher debates, "Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in American Education" treats school vouchers as a ...
How is American foreign policy determined? "The Great Anglo-Celtic Divide in the History of American Foreign Relations" approaches that question from a fascinating perspective, arguing that, to a large extent, the answer lies in the ethnicity of the president. To make its point, this book examines the key foreign policies of American presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush and shows how their most important foreign policy decisions have tended to follow an ethnic pattern.
The presidency has been dominated by Americans from English or Celtic backgrounds since the nation's...
How is American foreign policy determined? "The Great Anglo-Celtic Divide in the History of American Foreign Relations" approaches that question fr...
